SQUIRREL X-factor: Mr Brockle- bank’s new reader participation feature. Permission for Natural England to fell a quarter of Formby’s red squirrel refuge means that 22 of these animals could be lost.
But restoring the dunes will reprieve threatened natterjack toads, sand lizards and tiger beetles, which cannot live in shade and pine-needle cover. Which species is more impor- tant? You decide. Sadly, Mr Brocklebank has no copies for winners of his cheery festive kid- dies’ film, When Reindeer Go Bad.